@anshugsharma.myatproto.social
Studying quantum computing and software semantics. YIMBY, anti-ethnonationalisms, pro open borders. ‘Anarchist’ is not a slur. He/him. Adult. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshugsharma/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anshu.sharma.557128
Kids have a legal right to privacy, the same way adults do. Kids are not property!
Children are human beings with free will
Children are not surrogate lives for their parents
If I came out in my teens and the school outed me to my parents, I probably would not be here today. My dad would have beaten the shit out of me, I would have been homeless, and likely killed while doing sex work to survive or died from AIDS because my teen years were the 1990s.
#ProtectTransKids
'The Supreme Court’s Republican majority just did the legal equivalent of grabbing J.R.R. Tolkien’s One Ring, placing it on their collective fingers, and dancing around singing, “I just can’t wait to become a Nazgûl.”'
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What an incredible piece of reporting from my former colleague @lajourno.bsky.social, who spent months reporting how the state has under-investigated children working in harsh conditions in fields across California. Spend the time to read and hear from the children.
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"Donlon’s lawsuit was one of several filed by veteran police officials that described a culture of rampant corruption and cronyism within the department under Adams.
In recent weeks, federal prosecutors have also brought multiple bribery cases against former police officials who served under Adams."
"Tisch’s predecessor Thomas Donlon called the NYPD’s brass a “criminal enterprise” in a massive lawsuit he filed against the city last year, and claimed Tisch did nothing when informed of his concerns once she took control of the department."
This lawsuit was dismissed www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...
Police unions (and right-of-progressive commentators) being critical of, even hostile to, Dems wrt policing does not imply Dems are unfairly or even sufficiently critical of police unions or of police departments more generally.
5. Now that AG James has acted, many wonder if Mayor Mamdani will follow suit. The mayor ran on a sweeping promise to protect transgender healthcare—pledging $65 million, direct provision of care through the city's public hospital system, and enforcement of city law against hospitals capitulate.
What were Idaho lawmakers thinking!?
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (a): permit or require any employee in the California state-wide education system from misleading the parent or guardian of a minor child in the education system about their child's gender presentation at school, whether by: (i) directly lying to the parent; (ii) preventing the parent from accessing educational records of the child; or (iii) using a different set of preferred pronouns/names when speaking with the parents than is being used at school; (b): permit or require any employee in the California state-wide education system to use a name or pronoun to refer to that child that do not match the child's legal name and natal pronouns, where a child's parent or legal guardian has communicated their objection to such use;
4. Because of a provision in the lower court injunction that prohibits schools from using different names or pronouns with parents than are being used at school, all parent contact effectively becomes an outing event for transgender students across California. From the lower injunction:
Learn some of RFK Jr.’s most common rhetorical tricks here:
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Another victory for Bari Weiss, lifelong McCarthyite and consigliere of the most openly Nazi presidency in the history of the U.S.
GOP state rep working to eliminate school vaccine mandates: “If people decide not to be vaccinated, that is their choice,” he said.”
The problem is not just that an unvaccinated person infects others. It’s that we’re talking about CHILDREN.
Buckley v. Valeo warped our democracy. Yoder allowed parents to warp their children, a far more horrifying outcome. (BTW, take a look at this: tax.jotwell.com/anatomy-of-a... While it deals with a tax topic, the core of the article is how small groups, well funded, can obtain bad outcomes.)
Another contrast—this time, between this case and United States v. Skrmetti, 605 U. S. 495 (2025)—is also striking. In Skrmetti, several parents challenged Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The suit raised claims grounded in both equal protection and substantive due process. As to the latter, the parents in Skrmetti, similarly to the parents here, asserted a right “to make decisions concerning medical care for their minor children.” Pet. for Cert., O. T. 2023, No. 23–466, p. 34; see id., at 18 (invoking a “right of parents with respect to the care, custody, and control of their children, including in decisions about medical care”). And in support of that right, the Skrmetti parents relied on the same precedents the Court does today: Parham, 442 U. S. 584, and Pierce, 268 U. S. 510. See Pet. for Cert., No. 23–466, at 34–36; ante, at 5–6. But the Court, when deciding to grant certiorari in Skrmetti, limited its review to the equal protection issue: It would not even hear the parents out on their substantive due process claim.
This footnote in the Kagan dissent specifically calls out the double standard of quickly jumping to defend the rights of transphobic parents while ignoring the parental rights of trans youth seeking access to gender affirming care in Skrmetti.
This court will go above and beyond when transphobic parents object to policies supportive of trans students but then avoid and dodge any sort of challenge that limits the rights of parents that are supportive of trans youth and want to access gender affirming care.
Quite frankly I've always thought that Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 US 205 (1972) was one of the worse SCOTUS opinions ever. It allowed parents to impose what might be called "intellectual footbinding" on their children.
Using white nationalist quotes as gotchyas for other Republicans to refute is not only of zero value, it actively frames the *very worst* Republicans as the adults in the room - perhaps the primary peril we face heading into the 2030s.
On Columbia, which capitulated to the Trump regime's anti-trans orders:
"Even if it is accessible in a pedantic sense of the word—you can physically access this space, no one will stop you—they will not be safely accessible"
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/10...
As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it
Something else about Vanderbilt's capitulation: VUMC said it would only offer “nonsurgical gender-affirming care for adults 19 years and older.” But 18-year-olds are adults. Tennessee law bans this care for people *under* 18, so VUMC is once again overcomplying
Unless I missed something this article does not say that Scouting America said the gender identity of trans scouts will be respected www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Regarding scouts, it may not be a formal ban but a requirement that Scouts must participate according to the gender corresponding to the sex assigned to them at birth. Imo it's telling the Scouts chose to try to appease the Department of Defense at all.
Not to mention the slew of hospitals and health networks which have suddenly dropped all their trans patients, even adults, again in just the last week.
I know what this means, and I dread it: www.advocate.com/politics/gop...
